US Patent Issued to FINTRAN AUSTRALIA on May 5 for "System and method for fumigating a vessel with crew protection" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,517, issued on May 5, was assigned to FINTRAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (Victoria, Australia).

"System and method for fumigating a vessel with crew protection" was invented by Matthew Brian Slavin (Victoria, Australia) and Aric Jana (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methods and systems of fumigating a vessel include delivering fumigant to a cargo area of the vessel. In particular, the vessel may be a roll-on/roll-off vessel. In such a system, an air pressure system is provided for maintaining a selected minimum pressure differential between a selected area of the vessel above the cargo area and the cargo area, such that pre...